e/Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol

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has gloss	eng: Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol is a Web Services and Federated identity specification, published by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems that defines mechanisms for a service to query an identity provider for metadata concerning the protocol suites it supports. The goal of this operation is to increase the ability of a given service to interoperate with a given identity provider.
lexicalization	eng: Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
instance of	c/Web service specifications